While infants can mount adaptive immune responses, their ability to develop robust, long-lasting immunity is significantly restricted compared to older children and adults.
This restriction stems from the developmental immaturity of the neonatal adaptive immune system, which includes T cells, B c...
Somali Americans develop twice the antibody response to rubella from the current vaccine compared to Caucasians in a new Mayo Clinic study on individualized aspects of immune response. A non-Somali, African-American cohort ranked next in immune response, still significantly higher than Caucasians, a...